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What a find!And still readable, too.I had a friend that used to write a monthly column like the Sandyville news for a small town newspaper. It was very similar to the one you showed.She so enjoyed writing that column.

The paper was completely dry, Theresa; it was under three layers of linoleum and one of lumber. The bottom layer of linoleum must have been put down as soon as the lumber was in place, so it was probably vintage 1942. It was in pretty good shape compared to the top layers of newer linoleum.

Our local paper still has a few of these local columns but not many. The assumption then was that you knew all the people mentioned, and of course today that's not often the case with so many more people, and so many moving about.

The ads fascinated me. The prices, and the sexism! Goodness. We've come a long way in the past 60 years, and sometimes we forget that.

I wish I'd found some recipes, but no dice.

I will cut out the best of the ads and articles and save them, but the mouse-eaten parts have to go.

The main pity about modern newspapers is that they're printed on cheap, absorbent, acidic paper. Hence, they quickly grow moldy or turn in to papier-mâché (in damp), or turn brown and brittle. (Which is why you never EVER want to fold up a paper you want to keep, for whatever reason: it will split at the fold lines, scattering little flakes of itself.) Still, stored under proper conditions and with better paper, they can last. A friend of mine owns a six-month (I think it is) run of the Times of London, bound in one gigantic volume (a size referred to as an "elephant folio"), dating to 1887 ...

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